Distribution of Variance of Fatigue Lives of Ferrous Metals by the Analysis of Fatigue Strength Database
The purpose of this study is to determine the distribution characteristics of variance of fatigue lives of carbon and alloy steels, especially from the viewpoint of their dependence on...
Statistical Fatigue Crack Propagation of a Superalloy Under a Block Type Spectrum Loading at Elevated Temperature
A lognormal statistical model was developed for the prediction of crack growth damage accumulations of superalloys under a block type spectrum loading at elevated temperature. Both the...
Damage Process of Composite Material with Randomly Oriented Fibers
A numerical procedure is formulated to make clear the damage process of composite materials with randomly oriented fibers. These composites often have complicated fiber oriented states,...
Fatigue Design and Reliability Analysis of CFRP Composites
The statistical fatigue properties of unidirectional (UD) T800/3631 carbon/epoxy composite laminates are investigated in this paper. Fatigue tests were conducted under rotating bending....
Fatigue Test Using Multi-Notched Specimen and its Reliability Analysis
This paper presents a fatigue testing method using a multi-notched test specimen for the purpose of estimating the distribution function of fatigue crack initiation life by a small number...
Adaptive Reliability-Based Inspection Strategies for Structures Subject to Fatigue
Metallic structures subject to substantial load-induced fatigue must be inspected from time to time and, possibly, repaired or even put out of service if the damage has reached critical...
Objective Comparison of Fatigue Crack Growth Laws
This paper presents objective criteria for choosing between different fatigue crack growth laws to represent a material's fatigue behavior based on a data set containing multiple...
Fatigue Crack Closure Under Random Loading
The goals of the research are to determine fatigue crack growth rates for stationary random amplitude loadings with arbitrary mean stress. Fatigue crack closure theory is applied to justify...
An Investigation of Live Loads on Concrete Structures During Construction
Slab formwork live loads include the weight of equipment, construction material storage loads, and impact loads when placing the concrete. In this paper material and equipment loads are...
Probabilistic Approach to Stress Distributions for Orthotropic Wood Plates
Probabilistic approach to the stress distributions of an orthotropic wood plate is discussed. The stress distributions for the orthotropic elastic media are fully dependent of the material...
General European Principles of Codes Concerning Reliability
The requirements for reliability cover safety, serviceability and durability and consider different causes and types of failure. They may concern the occurrence of a failure or the duration...
Background Studies for the Determination of Strength Functions in Eurocode 3?Design Rules for Steel-Structures
At present common unified rules for the design of Civil engineering structures are being prepared on the initiative of the Commission of the European Communities. Eurcode 3, which gives...
Limit States Design in Masonry
This paper reviews some aspects of limit states design for masonry structures based primarily on experience with a new Canadian code. Steps in an advanced second order safety index analysis...
Reliability of Miter Gates
A new approach for the reliability calculation of miter gates is presented. The reliability and hazard functions are related to the surficial wear of miter gates on their horizontal sill....
Secure Landfills: Reliability-Based Analysis and Design
A framework is outlined for reliability-based analysis and design of secure landfills. Reliability, R, is the estimated probability landfill leakage, Ql, is below an allowable limit, Qf;...
Reliability Models of the Mohr Failure Criterion for Mass Concrete
Failure in biaxially stressed concrete is here modelled by the Mohr criterion. The reliability of a stress state is evaluated in terms of 2 load variables and 1 or 2 strength variables....
Reliability Synthesis of CFRP Laminated Plate
The paper presents a formulation of shift synthesis to improve the reliability of fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) laminated plates with uncertain elastic constants and lamina strength....
Load Resistance Factor Design of Aluminum Structures
Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) is a reliability-based approach to design with uncertainty. It involves the explicit consideration of limit states, multiple load and resistance...
Reliability-Oriented Materials Design of Composite Materials
A basic formulation for evaluating safety index of unidirectional fiber reinforced laminate is presented. The proposed formulation is based on in-plane failure criteria of composite laminate...
The Effect of Repeated Inspections on the Reliability Degradation Due to Fatigue Crack Growth
The effect of repeated in-service inspections on the reliability degradation due to fatigue crack growth is investigated based upon a stochastic fracture mechanics. A method to evaluate...
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